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olume 17 I Number 1

Frankfurt Book Fair 2008
Part Two

Theo Gielen
The Netherlands

It is always difficult at a fair as big as the Frankfurt

Book Fair to get a full picture of trends. However, it struck

several of my professional colleagues, with whom I

discussed the subject, that this year there were many very

large, voluminous books. They are hard to lift, requiring

a large, extra solid table to be
laid on to turn over the pages.
They also need steel
warehouse scaffolding to store
them on, rather than normal
bookcases. I have no idea why
this format appeared so
popular this year. And,
happily, the tendency hasn't
yet affected pop-up book
production. Certainly the
output of the Sabuda/Reinhart
Studio grows thicker and
thicker (needing a special way

of gluing together the pages

with an extra opening at the

spine-end - did you spot it?).

The recent Birdscapes,

published by Chronicle Books,

also makes a claim on shelf

space. But they are, like the

heavy-weight Neiman Marcus

2007 promotional pop-up by

Kees Moerbeek, still the

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fair there was even
demonstrated a pop-up
book without pop-upsl At

the stand of the Munich
based Ars Edition, a brand
new format was shown
that puzzled and surprised
everyone that crowded the
stand to wonder. There
you took a flat picture
book in your hands
without any pop-ups at all

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- positioned yourself before a webcam and saw yourself on
a screen. When you opened the book you still had a flat book

in your hands - but on the
screen you appeared to have
opened a pop-up book with
unfolding"paper"artwork.
And, when moving the book
in your hands you saw
changes in the three-
dimensional pages of the book
on the screen! The project
was still in the paper-and-
virtual dummy stage, not yet
available for the trade (not
even a title), but its "magic" manipulative techniques were
highly intriguing. Will this be the future of the pop-up book:
a 12-page paperback to store a wealth of three-
dimensionality without amassing paper between the pages?
It would definitely end storage problems for the collector.

The Movable Book Society
has moved!

P.O. Box 9190

Salt Lake City, Utah

84109-0190

New titles at the up-market packagers

For the moment, however, we shall return to the
traditional pop-up output announced for 2009 and 20 1 0 that
was seen displayed in real paper books or dummies at the
stands of the major packagers.

Graham Brown from
Brown Wells and Jacobs

showed a new book entitled

Pop Opposites with pull-tabs

' and pop-ups that looked

promising, using various letter

types and colorful graphics. A

dummy-in-progress of How

Vdt^e E i ^fe Many More, announced as a

sequel to Ron van der Meer's

How Many (just published with variant cover designs in

French

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Frankfurt Book Fair , continued from page 1

and German) are no longer to be the work of Ron van der
Meer. A new (female) paper engineer will do the book
and, for marketing reasons, it will include a reference to
Mr. Van der Meer. What we saw of it wasn't bad at all!
Asked why Ron didn't do the book himself, Graham told
me that Ron will again start his own production company
and is already working on the development of a new
"pack." Although he said he didn't know what subject
would be covered, I saw he wasn't telling the truth;
apparently the project still has to be kept secret!

The UK packager Cowley
Robinson Publishing, based
in Bath, hitherto developed
only board books, some with
novelty elements. By buying
David Hawcock Books they
are now creating books for
older children with the
expertise of the master paper
engineer, of course, will
strive to offer up-market pop-
up books. Since their stand at
the fair looked like a bastion - and was likewise defended
— it was hard to effectively see what they are offering. For
the new Hawcock-engineered books, however, see what I
mentioned in the first part of this article. At Disney Press
I found a 2007 title produced by Cowley Robinson with
great design. The last spread of Kitty Richards' Pixie
Hollow Pop-up (9781423 106159), illustrated by Disney
Storybook Artists, has a double gatefold from which, on
two sides, fold high the halves of a massive pop-up Home
Tree. It is very impressive and surprising, indeed, and an
amazing example of complex paper engineering for
which, unfortunately, no one has received credit in the
book.

Continued on page 8

The Pop-up Book

Rosie Temperley
Birmingham, England

Was The Pop-up Book
the first to use the term
"pop-up" to describe the
mechanism that made the
characters spring to life?
All evidence indicates that
it was. The small book,
measuring 17 x 12 cm.,
was published by Chad
Valley Toys and Games of
Harborne, Birmingham,
England. Precise dating of
the book is difficult
because the Chad Valley
archive was destroyed
when the production of toys moved from Harborne.
Unfortunately, no complete run of catalogs exists but, from
all evidence that I have seen, I believe that the most likely
date for the book is 1908-1913. The consensus of opinion of
several children's book specialists - dealers and collectors -
is that the "style" and "feel" of the book is early 20lh century
- prior to the first world war.

I have reviewed Chad Valley catalogs from the period to
try to date the book. The catalogs for 1907/08 (belonging to
Philip Stokes) and also those of 1913/14 (belonging to the
Temperleys) both have a very distinctive motif that appears
on the title page and some other pages. This exactly matches
the distinct motif that appears on every page of text in The
Pop-up Book. Moreover, catalogs prior to 1907 or past 1914
do not have this motif.

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Chad Valley motif

I have not yet been able to see the catalog of 1910 which
is in the Bethnel Green Museum of Childhood holdings. It
is now stored at a warehouse outside London and they are
meant to be locating it for me. When I do see it, I shall, of
course, look for the same motif and also any advertisement
for The Pop-up Book. It would be nice - very convenient! -
to find one. Without such an advertisement, we can never be
100% sure of the date.

Finally, we can be absolutely certain that The Pop-up Book
predates 1920 because in that year the company became
incorporated as Chad Valley Limited.

The colorful book has eight pop-up illustrations and
two pages of text. The short verses read:

Here's the Bubble Kid so airy,
Light and graceful as a fairy,
See him float up from the pipe
For any mischief ever ripe
Over the wall top watch him glide,
First in rosebush trying to hide
Then up in the air he whirls like a top
Reaches the sun - and goes off POP.

Move on, move on, move on I say,

You dont [sic] want to look at me all day

Whats [sic] that I hear, you think I'm funny?

Well well, move on, I call that rummy

Turn the pages and you'll see

Things much funnier than me

The "pop-up" uses a
rubber band with spring
action that causes the
mechanism to stand up
when the pages are
opened. I have a copy in
my collection but all of
the original rubber had
disintegrated and stuck to
the paper. I repaired it
and they now all pop-up -
albeit with the aid of a
girl's elastic hair band!

In addition to my own
copy, the only other copy

Illustration from
The Pop-up Book

I have seen belongs to Philip
Stokes who is the President
of the Chad Valley Society,
and he knows of no other
copy within the membership
of the Society. His opinion
is that it was an experiment
that failed to take off. As far
as we are aware, this is the
only book that Chad Valley
produced. They specialized
in toys, games, and card
games. The lively
illustrations are possibly by
Max Pollock who was well-
known and did a lot of
work for Chad Valley up to
the first world war. He was
an illustrator of card games.

Illustration from
The Pop-up Book

Baudouin van Steenberghe

Theo Gielen

In August, 2008 Baudouin van Steenberghe, the well-
known Belgian collector of movable and pop-up books,
passed away in Brussels. He did not live to see the opening
of the Pop-up Museum he hoped would be founded in his
hometown of Brussels and for which was prepared to donate
his wonderful collection of modern and antique movable
books. About a year ago he talked with passion about his
plans for the museum with the French website of movable
books - Mr. Van Steenberghe was a French speaking
Belgian - and said he hoped the museum would be opened
by the end of 2008. A summary of the interview was
published in the February, 2008 issue of Movable Stationery .

After a working life
of some 30 years in
publicity and
advertising, primarily
as a director of a
publicity agency, he
specialized at a later
age, in the early
1990s, in art and
antiques. He was the
author of the leading
Antiques Guide of
Belgium, that was
reprinted several
times, and was an
expert in continental
ceramics, porcelain,
and pottery. He was
also knowledgeable in
toys, automata, and
puppets.

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Baudouin van Steenberghe

If readers are aware of an earlier book that uses the
term "pop-up," I would like to know about it.

He started collecting movable and pop-up books when he
found a pop-up Tintin at a flea market in 1974 and, tried to
find out more about the history, production, and design of
these books by research. The collection of about 500
carefully selected movable and pop-up books (mainly in
French) that he built up in about 20 years was presented to
the Musees Royaux a" Art et d'Histoire (The Royal Art and
History Museum) in 1 993 and in that same year the museum
organized a beautiful exhibition of this valuable gift. It was
held in the historic Musee de la Porte de Hal, an old town
gate that was once part of the walls of the city of Brussels. It
was the first major exhibition of pop-up books, received a lot
of publicity, and had 35,000 visitors in the months. A nice
accompanying book publication Pop-up, ou le Livre Magic
(not really a catalog) is what remains.

To the disappointment of Mr. Van Steenberghe, the
museum did not do anything else with the collection; it was
just stored in a climate-controlled cellar of the museum. So,

after some time he started to build a second collection.
Because of his good contacts in the antiques trade, his
name as a connoisseur from the Brussels exhibition,
enough money, and many travels around the world, he
managed to bring together an even more exciting
collection than the first one. It had lots of very rare
antique movables and pop-up books which I had the
privilege to see a couple of years ago, guided by the
comments of the gentleman. Unfortunately, he never
published on the subject.

This second collection of about 2,500 books, movables,
novelty ephemera, and paper toys was planned by him to
be the basis of the museum that he was pursuing during
the last years of his life. In a recent message he told that
there was a verbal agreement with the museum in Brussels
and several thematic exhibitions were already planned. As
said, he did not live to see the opening of this highly
desired museum. What now will happen with the
collection and the plans of the museum is unclear. What
is clear is that the colorful world of collectors has lost a
remarkable representative in the person of Baudoin van
Steenberghe.

Catalogs Received

Aleph-Bet Books. Catalogue 90. 85 Old Mill River Rd.
PoundRidge, NY 10576. Phone: 914-764-7410. Fax: 914-
764-1356. Email: helen@alephbet.com.
http://www.alephbet.com

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Poppits

Ellen G. K. Rubin
Scarsdale, New York

Pop-up Trivia

Look at David Carter's Bugs
in Space [Little Simon, 1997].
In the 1st spread, the rocket
takes off from David's
hometown of Salt Lake City,
Utah.

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Pop-up Nominated for a Grammy

Not since a pop-up book made it into the Guinness World
Records 2004, has one poised itself for national attention.
Renee Jablow, paper engineer for many of our favorite
children's pop-up books and
attendee at the last Conference,
has produced a CD jacket with a
mechanic on the front and back
and a pop-up inside. The jacket
has been nominated for a
Grammy Award in the Best
Packaging category. The CD,
Summer Rains, by the Ditty
Bops, is available at amazon.com
and www.thedittybops.com. The
movables are fun and the music

is light, and well, "dittyish." The Grammys will be handed
out on February 8. We'll be rooting for Renee.

La Boutique de Livre Anime. Bulletin no 6. 3 rue Pierre
L'Ermite, 75018 Paris. Email:
Boutiquedulivreanime@orange.fr.
http://livresanimes.com/

Sotheran's of Sackville Street. Children 's and Illustrated
Books. Henry Sotheran Limited. 2 Sackville St. Piccadilly,
London W1X2DP. Phone: 0171 439 6151. Fax: 0171 434

2019. Email: sotherans@sotherans.co.uk.

http://www.sotherans.co.uk

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POPUPLDY

Ellen G.K. Rubin's (aka The Popup Lady) New York
License Plate

Pop-ups and Politics .

Carol Barton, who created an Obama/McCain pop-up for
the election, created another of the Obama swearing in. I
made one for my Inauguration Party host and it was a great
hit! It may be downloaded at her website,
http://www.popularldnetics.com/rnaking_page.html

Limited Edition Greeting Cards/Pop-up Club

Thierry Desnoues, of the French website
www.livresanimes.com, has published two limited edition,
signed and numbered pop-up cards by the artists UG
(Philippe Huger) and Marion Bataille (ABC3D) to support
the site. They may be seen on the website where they are
exclusively distributed

[http://livresanimes.com/actualites/actu0810_cartespopup.
html]. To order, email editions@livresanimes.com.

Thierry has also founded an exclusive POP-UP Club in
Paris. Serious collectors, paper engineers, researchers, and
related people are invited to take part. The Club plans to
meet four times a year and will have their gatherings in the
Boutique du Livre Anime of Jacques Desse and Thibaut
Brunessaux. It's as good excuse as any to visit Paris. Oui?
Contact Thierry at contact3@livresanimes.com

Exhibitions Abroad

The exhibition "Palaste, Panzer, Pop-up-Bucher -
Papierwelten in 3D" (Palaces, tanks, pop-up books -
Paper worlds in 3D) will be at the Badisches
Landesmuseum Karlsruhe in Germany from February 14
to June 21 2009. About 450 items will illustrate the
development of paper models, construction sheets and
home-made paper objects from the early 19,h century to
today. The faculty of applied geometry and computer
techniques of the Karlsruhe University will demonstrate a
program they developed to design a paper model from the
dates of any object. Look for more info at:
http://www.landesmuseum.de/website/Deutsch/Sondera
usstellungen/Vorschau/Palaeste_Panzer_Pop-up-
Buecher.htm

"Pop Up Around the World!"
continues through Sunday,
March 15, 2009 at The Lowry,
Pier 8, Salford Quays, M50
3AZ, Greater Manchester,
England. This exhibition takes
you on a tour through the
magical world of pop-ups.
Travel to some of the great cities
in the world and see how famous
buildings and landmarks have
proved a popular subject for

pop-ups - even The Lowry. The exhibit also features pop-
up models of surrounding buildings made by local artists
and a display of work done by children in pop-up
workshops.

Still on exhibit until March 1, 2009 is the exhibition,
"Wunderwerke aus Papier" (Miraculous works out of
paper), at the Zehntscheuer Museum in Balingen,
Germany. On display are movable, novelty, and pop-up
books from the collection of Mrs. Inge Hase from
Stuttgart, one of the major collections of historic movables
in Germany. Go to

http://www.netmuseum.de/ausstellung.aspx?aname=&a
ort=&aperson=&aschlagwort=&suchart=ausstellung&a
vom=&azum=&atag=28.1.2009&id=1970&atitel=Wun
derwerke+aus+Papier.+Spielbilderb%C3%BCcher+aus
+der+Sammlung+Inge+Hase&sicht=einzeln

Thanks to Theo Gielen for the exhibit notices and the
"French Connection."

If you are as frustrated as I am about being
monolingual [see http://www.popuplady.com/art2-czech-
l.htm on translating Kubasta], here's a tip. I use Google
Translate http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
to help me translate foreign words or entire web pages.
Google has the most language choices I have found
anywhere, and you can set the homepage to your own
native tongue. Good luck in The Tower of Babel!

Talking About Pop-ups

Gerald (Jerry) Naugle
Linden, Michigan

Earlier this year [2008], I was at a small book
presentation at our local library where I volunteer 3-4 hours
each week. After the presentation, I was talking to the
presenter and mentioned to him that I have a collection of
pop-up books. A few weeks later I received a call from the
president of the Flushing, Michigan Library Friends Group.
The presenter, who I had talked to earlier, had given my
name to them and I was asked if I would be willing to make
a presentation to their group on my pop-up books. I had
some trepidation, but wanted to share my love for these
wonderful books. I did not have a lot of older books, but in
total I had about 700 movable books, including several
different types. I have been collecting for about 12 years and
I fell in love with them after I bought a couple for our
grandchildren. These were When the Wild Pirates Go
Sailing and Monster Island.

I attended the
Chicago Movable Book
Society Conference and
heard several
presentations on
movable books. I had
read several articles on
their history. In addition,
I have the 10,h
anniversary MBS book
which traces the history
with examples of the
movables. I also had the
Robert Sabuda video

tape "Popping Up in Ecuador "showing the process for

making pop-ups books.

I decided I would present what they were, explain how I
got into these books, provide a brief history, show the video,
and, when possible, show examples of the movables from the
MBS 10th anniversary book and my collection. I have either
reproductions or original examples of most of the movable
book "giants" so I can show their paper engineering and
illustration art as I outline the history. I set up many of my
books on tables around the room. When I show a book, I
open them to show how they work and describe examples of
different types of movables; pop-ups, tunnels, panorama,
turn ups, changing pictures, etc. Except for a few, I do not
allow the audience to touch the books due to their delicate
nature.

There were about 25 people in the audience. After the
presentation, several came up to me to ask questions, and
many were surprised at how varied and beautiful the books
were. Well, I never thought I would be doing that again. I
was happy with how it went but never thought repeating it.

Due to word of mouth, I have given five more
presentations in Linden and Fenton, Michigan. These
were requested by Historical Organizations and Library
Friends Groups. I also have another scheduled, even
though I have not advertised myself. All these offers came
from Reviews of my talks. I take three or four boxes of
books, as well as, if the facility does not have one, a TV
and video tape player.

In the meantime, I have purchased some older and
special pop-ups, which add greatly to the presentation.
It is fun to spread the information and to educate people
about these fantastic books. Most people are really
surprised to see such books and had no idea of the variety
and complexity of them. A few have brought in some of
their own pop-ups to show me. In several of cases they
were old Blue Ribbon originals.

I do not charge anything,
but I have been given some
gift certificates. I am making
it a point not to take
anything because I consider
it a volunteer activity, plus I
enjoy doing it. It also helps
spread the word about these
fascinating books.

The number of people in
each presentation has ranged
from 14 -25 which is about
right for this type of venue. I have considered getting a
projector to do a Powerpoint presentation but I am
concerned that then I would lose some of the intimacy of
the audiences. I am also considering calling various
groups to see if they would want to have a presentation.
Time will tell.

Q. I may want to bequeath my movable book collection to
a library or other institution. Any thoughts on how to
proceed and with what kind of institution? Also, any
comments on how to determine if my collection would be
worthwhile for an institution?

Jerry Naugle

A. I noticed in a recent issue of Movable Stationery an
article by Ellen Rubin about Kubasta's mini number series.
I don't think the set she saw was genuine because it is highly
improbably that they were originally issued in a slip case. As
you can see from the back cover of The King of Ninepins,
only eight titles were produced in 1 964. The remaining titles
(9-12) were published in 1965. They were not originally
issued as a set of 12. 1 hope this helps to set her mind at rest!
(But, maybe they were all reissued in a slip case in 1965
when they were all finished.)

Rosie Temperley

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Movable Reviews

Marilyn Olin
Livingston, New Jersey

1 = AWFUL 2 = POOR
3 = O.K. 4 = GOOD

5 = SUPERB

Rating: 5 IN THE
BEGINNING: THE
TALE OF GENESIS. By

Chuck Fischer. Paper
engineering by Bruce
Foster. Beautiful pop-up
images from the book of
Genesis. Sharing favorite
stories from the Bible, the
large pop-ups range from a
wonderful Tower of Babel
to a stunning stained glass
diorama. A lovely way to introduce these tales to children.

Rating: 5 BIRDSCAPES.

This is a wonderful large

pop-up book with fabulous

double page spreads of birds

in their habitats, with sounds

accompanying each pop-up.

It was done with the Cornell

Lab of Ornithology by

Miyoko Chu. Paper

engineering is by Gene

Vosough, Renee Jablow, and

Andy Baron. It is a lovely

book to share with young

children but would be loved by any adult

collectors.

A must for

Rating: 5+ ABC3D. This is the most amazing alphabet
book ever! It is really a work of art as well as a pop-up
book. It is for design-oriented older children and adults.
It is by Marion Bataille and published by Roaring Brook
Press. It is a very special book and any pop-up collector,
artist or graphic designer will want to own this.

Rating: 5 PREDATORS. By Lucio & Meera Santoro.
Large 3D pop-ups that swing off the page. There are lots
of small ones, also. Interesting facts about each animal are
given. The designs remind you of their swing-out greeting
cards that are available in many stores, but this book is
carefully done and well illustrated.

Rating: 4+ THE NUTCRACKER. By Patricia Fry. This
book is beautifully illustrated for a young child and would

be a wonderful gift, especially for one who was going to see
the ballet. It is a pity that so much effort was put into
another Nutcracker when there are so many pop-up editions
of it, but it is lovely.

Rating: 5+ THE SPUUT. By

Will Eisner. It has been adapted
and paper engineered by Bruce
Foster. This is a fabulous pop-up
comic book that has been adapted
from Eisner's graphic novel. It is
unusual and extremely well done
with pop-ups all over each page.
Foster has made this into a
colorful, exciting book and it
certainly belongs in your pop-up
collection. Don't miss it!

Rating: 5+ BRAVAj STREGA NONA. By Tomie
dePaola. Paper engineered by Robert Sabuda and Matthew
Reinhart. The illustrations from Tomie dePaola's original
book are brought to life in wonderful huge pop-ups by
Sabuda & Reinhart. A lovely gift for a young child. A
celebration of life and love.

Rating: 4+ THE INCREDIBLE HULK POP-UP. Design
and paper engineered by Andy Mansfield. This is #3 in the
series of Marvel Comics that have been made into pop-up
books. They are all colorful and exciting and deserve to be
collected.

Rating: 4 MOON LANDING. By Richard Piatt and David
Hawcock. This book would excite any child who is interested
in NASA's moon landing using Apollo 1 1 . It provides pop-
ups and information about the module, etc.

Rating: 5 MODERN ARCHITECTURE POP-UP. By

Anton Radevsky & David Sokol. This ambitious pop-up
book replicates many of the modern and contemporary
buildings throughout the world. It is a difficult paper
engineering job because of the architecture Radevsky is
working with. For the most part he succeeds admirably. It is
wonderful to be able to tour these three-dimensional models
rather than photographs. One really gets a feeling for the
inventive architecture we are visiting.

Rating: 5+ PETER PAN. By

Robert Sabuda. This is another
"over-the-top" book by Sabuda.
Each pop-up is fabulous
including the little ones that are
within the booklets that tell the
story. Only the pop-up of the
Jolly Roger, which is quite
complicated, didn't work too
well. Sabuda tops each book
with one better than before.

Frankfurt Book Fair, continued from page 2

At Templar Publishing

the two new wedge-shaped
titles of the Marvel "True
Believers" Retro Character
Collection were on display:
Fantastic Four Pop-up
i (9781840116700) and The
1 Incredible Hulk Pop-up
(978 1840 117066).
Announced for spring 2009
is The Ballerina 's Handbook
(9781840116984) by Kate
Castle that offers a pop-up Sleeping Beauty stage set,
fabric costumes, and lots of other ballet ephemera. Quite
different - and surprising at the end - is Who Will You
Meet on Scary Street? Pop-up Nightmare Inside!
(9781840113099) by Christine Tagg and illustrated by
Charles Fuge with nine pop-ups.

For non-fiction pop-up books, they showed the recently
published third part of the Pop-up Facts series: Space: A
Star Studded Exploration! (9781840117936) by Peter
Bond and packed with pop-ups, pull-tabs, flaps, a dial
mechanism, and even a press-out dice game. Also shown
were the first two published parts of their innovative series
of Kaleidopops Books by Ruth Martin with illustrations by
Peter Scott, including moving image lenticulars. Oceans
(9781840118650) has lenticular
pop-ups with changing colors
that show hunting, defense, and
attraction in action under the
waves. In Bugs (91% 18401 18704)
butterflies and dragonflies flutter
their lenticular wings, showing
off a kaleidoscope of shimmering
colors. A third volume, Extreme
Predators (97818401 13143) will
come in the spring and will bring

tigers, sharks, and cobras into action, springing off the
page.

Finally, at Walker Books was seen one of this year's
most amazing pop-up dummies: Gladiators at the
Colosseum by Toby Forward, illustrated by Steve Noon. It
opens up to reveal a reconstruction of the world's most
famous amphitheater in its full glory of a day at the
Roman games. It is a spectacular paper construction that
folds out in two halves from the left and the right to close
to its full oval in the middle of the spread. A must-have
for sure once published next fall.

Walker Books also displayed a new Snow White
illustrated in five, three-dimensional scenes with the
exquisite artwork by the well-known illustrator Jane Ray.
Every scene suggests the theatrical drama and romance of

the story with swathes of curtain and a stage. Highly
theatrical, too, is the third part of Jean Mahoney and Viola
Ann Seddon's ballet packs. Swan Lake combines a fold-out
ballet theater, twirling figures, movable scenery, and a CD
of the Swan Lake music. The Kate Greenaway Medal-
winning illustrator Gary Blythe illustrated the 80 pages of A
Treasury of Princess Stories by Amy Ehrlich with an
enchanting pop-up scene to introduce each of the six favorite

stories. A funny toddler's
pop-up plaything at Walker's
will be Jill Murphy's Large
Family Novelty. It has a large
cover (30 x 34 cm.) with a
fold-down, pop-up kitchen
scene into which the stories of
three of her well-known
Large Family booklets (a
family of elephants) can be
recreated. Mini hardbacks of
the booklets are inserted in
the insides of the cover flaps,
as is a set of press-out-and-play characters. All of these will
come out next fall.

The middle-market of series and sequels

Though the building of my articles may suggest that the
up-market pop-up book dominates the business, it surely is
for the middle-market that the bulk of movable and pop-up
books are published every year. No spectacular
extravaganzas, elaborately engineered paper works,
surprising new techniques, or mechanisms are found in the
many new titles for this part of the market. But they are
solid, sellable books offered at a decent price and contain
movable and three-dimensional elements to attract the
buyer's attention. Mostly these are the books that reach the
hands of the intended readers/players, the children. This is
where the big money is made - though the collectors mostly
ignore at them. Not always rightly though, since amongst
them are some quite nice items. What follows is a rather
random choice out of the possibly hundreds of new titles
from this production, grouped by the packager/publisher
where they were seen.

Most likely the number one in publishing for this branch
of the market is Tony Potter Publishing. Having developed
some well-selling formats in the last couple of years, they
seemed to me to be offering fewer new titles. Nevertheless,
there were new sequels in their series of interactive,
informative books with memorabilia, flaps, and pop-ups:
World War II: The War Through the Eyes of Children by
Gavin Mortimer describes the experiences of children from
around the world. Also through the eyes of contemporary
children, we get a look at the daily life in Egypt and at the
Vikings, both written by Duncan Crosbie and engineered by
Kees Moerbeek. Ancient antiquity features in both books
written by Sue McMillan: Ancient Myths and Greek Myths,
that apart from the usual Greek, Roman, and Egyptian

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American origin. Dummies of two parts of a new series of
Great Lives, written by Pat Hegarty, were on display and
used the same format of fascinating facts, pseudo-
facsimiles, flaps, and pop-up surprises. Each explores the
life and times of an historic figure who played an
important role in changing the world: Shakespeare comes
in 2009 and later Leonardo da Vinci. An innovative city
guide by Valentina Zagaglia will be Great Cities: An
Interactive Journey Around the World. It will depict with
flaps and pop-ups the landmarks and features of such
cities as New York, Paris, London, Rome, Moscow, and
Beijing.

Expanding into this
market is Top That!
Publishing from
Woodbridge in Suffolk,
U.K. While already having
some ten years of
experience with board
books, activity books, and
books-plus components,
they now have a new
imprint of Tide Mill Press
that will include all kinds of movable, novelty, and pop-up
books as well. A series of Magic Ribbon Books includes
two titles illustrated by Rebecca Elliott: Sammy the Snake
(9781846665400) and Millie the Millipede
(978 1846662737) in which, at the turn of a page, the title
character pops out on his
flexible ribbon, highlighting
a different shape or colored
spot on his back. In two parts,
illustrated by Andrea Petrlik,
All Aboard the Yellow School
Bus (9781846665424) and
All Aboard the Animal Train
(9781846661747), a bus or
train pops out on a flexible
ribbon to show children and
animals in the windows.

There are three interactive counting books with integral 3-
D characters and well-known counting rhymes like Ten
Green Bottles (9781846666469), There Were Ten Bears
in a Bed (9781846661105), and Ten Little Mermaids

(9781846663765). Each
book ends with a well-
executed pop-up scene on
the final spread. Pop-up
story books on the list
include Who Ate all the
Lettuce? (9781846661761),
illustrated by Rebecca
Elliott, and the funny Cock-
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(978 1 846666643), illustrated by
Andy Roland, follows the grand
adventures of Bear, who wanted
to see the world, and has to be
found in the pop-up scenes of
the five spreads that punctuate
each of the world famous
landmarks. The Snowlies Find a
Letter (9781846664090) is
designed and illustrated by the
renowned mural artist Ashe
Ericksson. There were also on display some nursery rhyme
pop-up books like Hey Diddle Diddle (978 1 846666674) and
HumptyDumpty (9781846666681) by Czes Pachela; a turn-
the-dial book by Daniel Howarth, / Am a Mole, and Live in
a Hole (9781846665745); and a Nister-like book with
revolving pictures by Susanna Lockheart, Revolving Nursery
Rhymes: A Rotate and Reveal Picture Book
(9781846665721). They also showed a range of (board)
picture books with magnetic supplements, magic wands,
L.E.D. lights, even with "colour-changing star light," sliding
panels, UV flashlights to reveal invisible ghouls on the
pages, and more. It is a very interesting new imprint with
good quality movable and pop-up books.

A third big player in this
market is Little Tiger Press that
has built up a strong backlist of [
pop-up books in recent years and
is augmenting it with new titles
this season. Their Peek-a-Boo
Pop-ups, illustrated by Jack
Tickle, will publish in the spring
two additional volumes: The Very
Ticklish Tiger (9781845065928)
and The Very Funny Fish

(9781845065935) to complete a dozen titles in the series.
Trish Phillips illustrated a new The Greedy Dog
(9781845065966) after her earlier Big Old Bear Who
Swallowed a Fly and The Little Fish Who Cried Shark!
Debbie Tarbett has a third sequel to her series with moulded
pieces and a pop-up finale with Ten Friendly Fish
(9781845065560). After the success of last year's treasure-
hunting tale of The Lost Treasures of Mummy 's Tomb.
Martin Taylor and Duncan Smith came to this year's fair
with two just-published sequels: The Lost Treasures of
Dragon 's Cave (978 1845067441) and The Lost Treasures of
Skull Island (9781845065546).

By tradition Macmillan and its imprints aim at this
middle-market as well, at least with the movable and pop-up
books that are not designed by their star engineers Nick
Denchfield and Maggie Bateson. Next summer will see
published My Alien Odyssey: A Pop-up and Play Book
(9780230707641) paper engineered by Corina Fletcher and
illustrated by Melissa Four. It will offer three pop-up scenes
to act out or to use to make up your own adventures on an

alien planet using the die-cut characters and accessories
stored in a built-in drawer. Corina Fletcher also designed
and engineered Time Pirates: Atlantis Adventure for fall
that will be illustrated by Mike Bromlow and will have
two stand-alone pop-up vehicles and an amazing pop-up
underwater city with press-out pieces. Great fun this
summer will be Emma Dodd's Messy Fingers: With Lift-
the-flap and Pull-tab Surprises that goes from messy, to
muddy, sticky, soapy, and, finally, sleepy.

Scholastic also displayed
several nice items aimed at
the middle-market. Emma
Dodd showed here the young
child's Dot and Dash Love to
Play: A Push-and-Pull Pop-
up Book with novelty
mechanisms on every spread.
Jo Lodge had two new pop-up
books: Noisy Farm Animals
(9781407106076) and Noisy

Things That Go (9781407106083), both with giant pop-

ups and, respectively, animal

or vehicle noises. Ant Parker's

spring contribution is Welcome

to Busyville, a large format

board book with moving

windows on every spread to

reveal hilarious surprises. Nick

Sharratt just published

Octopus Socktopus

(9781407105574) with pull-
tabs, lift-flaps, and humorous

wordplay, a sequel to his

earlier Elephant Wellyphant.

David Wojnowicz illustrated a

sequel to his earlier Elephant

Joe is a Pirate and showed the

pull-tab and turn-a-wheel dummy of Elephant Joe is a

Spaceman!, to come next spring. Finally Sean Taylor, the

creator of the Piggy Wiggy books, had on display his The

Bopping Big Band (9780439943444) with lift-the-flaps to

reveal very funny musicians and a great pop-up finale

with an integrated applause sound chip.

At the stand of Chronicle Books was seen another
interesting three-dimensional curiosity by Saviour Pirotta:
Fairy Tree House (97808 1 1 8643 12). Illustrated by Susanna
Lockheart, it has with a fold-out card stock tree house that
stands upright from the centerfold of the covers to be stuffed
with items (stored in a pocket) to punch out and assemble:
a fairy carousel, a dress-up fairy, a dragonfly mobile and
more. It is hard to describe but it is quite an oddity!

At Egmont Books was

seen an acceptable Saturday
Night S h a u n
(9781405242196) by Emily
Stead and illustrated by
Adam Reif, offering a pop-
up party paper engineered by
Richard Hawke. A more
desirable pop-up book was
seen at Hyperion Books
where Margaret
McNamara's The Whistle on the Train: A Rollicking
Railroad Pop-up Book! (9780786848904) was on display.
Illustrated by Richard Egielsky, it is an eight double-spread
homage to the favorite preschool song "The Wheels on the
Bus," packed with massive, though not too refined, pop-ups
on every page.

Remarkable, we thought, was the almost complete lack
of pop-up books from the Australian Five Mile Press that in
recent years has done a lot of them. Except for a nice
carousel (see later) we saw just a follow-up to the earlier The
Search for Tutankhamun, done again by Niki Horin, and 77ie
Search for the South Pole: Adventures of the Heroic Age
(9781742113166). It tells about the journeys of Robert
Falcon Scott, Roald Amundsen, and Sir Ernest Shackleton
with collaged photographs, diary entries, pasted-in booklets,
some flaps, and pop-up features.

And, finally, there are, of course, some of the pinkest of
pop-up books spotted again: Dawn Apperley offered at
Orchard Books for next summer a sequel to How to be a
Perfect Ballerina from the Princess Rosebud series that has
already sold 12 million copies worldwide (so we fear this
will not be the last part).

Separate movable or pop-up books of interest were
seen at the stands of some other publishers that don't
specialize in these books but do bring out a single title
from time to time. Child's Play showed four new Roly
Poly Box Books by Kees Moerbeek: Jungle, Ocean, Snow,
and Space that complete the first dozen of titles in this
successful series. They also announced a new series of
Whirligigs by Kees Moerbeek. However, the books were
recognized as a reprint of the funny novelty books with
rotating characters that appeared at the end of the 1980s
as parts of a series called Whizzers!

And announced for fall
from Robin Corey Books was
another My Dance Recital:
With Pop-ups, Lift-th-flaps,
Pull-tabs, and More!
(9780375847080) by
Maryann Cocca-Leffler.
Even though the dinosaur
books for the boys appear to
be extinct, the girlish ballet
books appear to have eternal
life.

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The mass market

The lower side of the market also has its own
publishers to provide cheap, simply constructed, and
common-taste-designed novelties. A few years ago this
mass-market was still flooded by sideways opening books
with simple fanfolded pop-ups as published by
Ottenheimer, Crown, Brimar, Grandreams, Peter
Haddock, and similar companies, but these kinds of books
are rarely seen anymore. Musketeer Books was the only
company we saw still offering them in Frankfurt.

Today they have been replaced by (board) books with
simple movable or pop-up devices that don't need
elaborate production in China, done above all in vivid
colors "as children love," and with a choice of subjects
mostly limited to fairy tales, animals, or early concepts
(shapes, opposites, colors, numbers). "Photoshopping"
appears to be the most recent way to reduce the costs of
this kind of books.

Intervisual Books and Piggy
Toes Press showed some of
these in series based on color
photographs, enhanced with
some "acrylic cover treatment"
or "tactile areas." Examples are
Pop & Touch and Pop & Shine
books with titles like Baby
Animals, Colors, Fruit, Kittens,
and Trucks, and another series
with Big Cats, Sharks, Snakes, and Wolves. But several of
the simple Dorling Kindersley titles offered surely fit into
this market, too. Reader's Digest also used to serve this
market and offered, for example, Dinosaur Days: A Pop-
up Book about Opposites, and a Barbie Mix and Match,
to come this winter. And Bookmart adds a series of
fairytale books with pop-up 3D windows like Cinderella,
Little Red Riding Hood, and The Princess and the Jewels,
as well as a third kaleidoscope early learning board book:
My Big Book of Counting.

Small World Creations contributes with books by
Fiona Hayes, My Incredible Colours and My Incredible
Counting that combine wheels and flaps with a simple
pop-up finale. Kathryn Smith has no less than three series:
simple pop-up books like My Incredible Pop-up Baby
Animals, and My Incredible Pop-up Farmyard; booklets
with turning dials to complete the scenes in Who Lives
Here?, What Do I Eat?, Who Sold That?, and What Do I
Need? There are books with sliding pages that reveal extra
pictures in Finley the Fish (about numbers), Dilly the
Duckling (about colors), Tilly the Tiger (about patterns),
and Poppy the Puppy (about opposites).

Almost hurting the eyes, however, were 3D Pop-up on
the Farm and 3D Pop-up Oliver's Animal Friends as seen
at the hitherto unknown company of Yoyo Books.

Macmillan toddler's and young children's imprint
Campbell Books offered some more quality titles with Jason
Chapman's pull-tab books Who 's That Singing?, and Who 's
That Snoring? There were simple pop-up books with busy
little bugs by Benji Davies: Pop-up Garden, and Pop-up
Toadstool; or the even touching sturdy board book Baby
Faces by Zita Newcome, in which the expressions on the
faces cutely change by the pull of a tab - to name just a few
of their new 2009 titles.

Quite a novelty for little
girls is a long-term project
that started at Macmillan
with the publication of its
first two parts: Sparkle
Street by Vivian French
with illustrations by Joanne
Partis. The paperback
booklets with cut-out pages
and glitter each come with
a stand alone pop-up shop that in due time will make a
village shopping High Street. Wizard Stargazer's Magic
Shop and Rosa Bloom 's Flower Shop are just published;
Barnaby Baker 's Cake Shop and Lizzie Ribbon 's Hat Shop
will follow early 2009. Further, Leo Catt's Pet Shop and
Fairy Pink's Hotel are announced for 2010.

The ever popular carousel format

The exploration of all possibilities of the carousel format,
as started by Wally Hunt's Intervisual Books in the 1990s,
has brought a lot of books with complex engineering,
sophisticated gems in the last decade. These have been
expensive up-market designs with up to eight or more
compartments over various levels, with roofs and a look into
the doll's house, castle, etc. They have shown the front of
the building on one side, had innovative techniques for
flattening the floors, and even built-in lights to turn on - it
has all been done. Keith Moseley was an innovative designer
of the kind that, with the creativity of a Nick Denchfield,
went over the border by disguising its original format in his
recent creations. That development seems to have come to
an end, since we saw in Frankfurt a clear return to the more
basic use of the carousel as a round
display. With ribbons to connect
the front and back covers, and the
traditional four compartments with
rather simple pop-up elements,
these are often designed for the
child to play with using his own
toys, or with press-out characters or
accessories that come with the
book. These are, indeed, paper toys.

Such books were on display at
Macmillan designed by Emily Bolam: Farmyard Friends
and Happy House, to come early 2010. Tony Potter
Publishing was represented by dummies of Fix-it Garage

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and Poppy 's Pony Club by Moira Butterfield Priddy Books
showed, likewise,^/ 's Auto Workshop (9781843325000)
and Rose's Doll's House (9781843324997). Chicken
Socks from Palo Alto, California had a nice Tree House
Bugs (978 1591743798) with bug buddies to assemble from
pipe cleaners, wooden beads, pre-printed sticker faces to
stick on, and easy-to-assemble furniture for the tree house.
This most basic format was used also by the
aforementioned Yoyo Books for their Yoyo's Medieval
Castle Carousel Book and Yoyo 's Farmhouse Carousel
Book.

Because they told their own

story, filled up with the figures

that belong to it, fewer

interactive items were found in

Dragon Mountain by Georgia

Barrington at Tony Potter

Publishing; in Pop-up Party

Time! (9780230701878) from

the Honey Hill Books by

Dubravka Kolanovic at

Campbell Books, and in

Dinosaurs in the Round: With 3-D Pop-up Diorama's

from the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods

(9780375843686) by Jen Green at Random House.

Most surprising proved to be the return to the original
format of the carousel book as it originated in the 1940s -
with its star-shaped design of three angular compartments
built up from a proscenium, two or three die-cut layers
and a backdrop, offering a
nice perspective diorama.
We found such retro
publications displayed in
full glory at Five Mile Press
(from Australia) with their
Cinderella: A Fairytale
Carousel Book illustrated by
Lee Krutop. Opening with a
12-page storybook that
retells the story with hyper
realistic illustrations, the
book folded round for my
very eyes into a circular
panorama of six illustrated

dioramas layered for a captivating 3-D effect. As if by
magic, I was the small boy again who got his first carousel
in the 1950s. Nostalgia pur sang.

... and some other novelties

Last year's best selling success of Gallop! A
Scanimation Picture Book by Rufus Butler Seder from
Workman - and published internationally in various
countries - had a 2008 sequel Swing! A Scanimation
Picture Book from the same publisher. As well as a range
of related stationery, there were animated suncatchers,

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effects of the moire overlay. The dummy of another sequel,
Kick! A Scanimation Picture Book, to come in 2009, adds a
variety of color to the hitherto black and white designs.

As intriguing as the revival of the historic technique of
the moire overlay, we think, is the reuse of another
technique that has been used for centuries to surprise by its
effect, the anamorphosis. Kelly Houle revives this distorted
picture technique that only makes sense when seen in a
curved mirror in her Grade 's Gallery: A Magic Mirror
5ooA:(9781581 177848) published by Piggy Toes Press. She
wrote a nice article in the November, 2008 issue of Movable
Stationery about the genesis of this book with its cleverly
constructed mylar mirror that rounds into the right shape by
the pull of a tab.

Nostalgic, but still surprising,
as well, are the anaglyphs used
by Marie Javins in 3-D World
Atlas & Tour (9780811860611)
published by Chronicle Books.
Apart from the usual maps and
feature articles found in an atlas,
the book also includes some 50,
3-D photos of the world's most
interesting sights to be seen
through the red-and-blue glasses
that come with the book.
Promoted as "The world isn't flat. . . Your atlas shouldn't be
either!" the reader can visit the Grand Canyon, look down
from the top of the Eiffel Tower, "snorkel" in the Great
Barrier Reef, peek inside a blue ice cave in Antarctica, and
more. Also, the physical maps are rendered in 3-D, so
mountains rise off the page as well. Old fashioned, maybe,
in times of Google Earth but a wonder of three-dimensional
optical illusion that still amazes today as it did a century
ago.

A final three-dimensional oddity, based on a historic
format, was found at the stand of the Japanese Toppan
Printing Company that presented a new design by the
Japanese publishing company Imajinsha and attracted a lot
of attention. A new concept was proposed for bookcase type
diorama called Panoramic Scope. It is a book-a-like box to
be filled with a three-dimensional scene of a view of a well-
known city by constructing it yourself from pages of pre-
perforated model-sheets. When ready, the scene can be seen
through a small slit in the spine of the book-box and by this
restricted view there spread surprisingly wide and deep
views before your eyes. By lifting the front cover you even
can adjust the light and change the view as seen by sunset or
sunrise. . . ! The work is highly reminiscent of the pre-cinema
format of the polyorama panoptique from the 19th century.
Designs were available of dioramas of Venice (Grand Canal
and Rialto Bridge), London (Big Ben), Paris (Arc de
Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower), New York (Statue of

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Libert}), Egypt (pyramids), and Sydney (Opera House).
Each comes with an informative booklet about the history
of the cities and its buildings.

Continental Europe

To conclude the second part of this survey of what was
seen at the 2008 Frankfurt Book Fair, we will briefly
glance at the original continental European output of
movable books and pop-ups. After years of complete
inactivity, some publishers from Germany are again
investing in co-editions of Anglo Saxon projects.
Coppenrath Verlag, for example, brings the German
edition of Ron van der Meer's How Many? The German
branch of Dorling Kindersley publishes some German
editions of their pop-up books (Dinomanie; Mein
Interaktiver Weltatlas; Regenwald, and Ozeane, two parts
of the series of 3D Entdecker). Volumes of the recent
counting series by David A. Carter were also seen in
German editions. The Munich based Ars Edition seems to
be back into the pop-up market. On one hand they, again,
had several co-editions of British pop-up books, and on
the other, they developed an all-new Aliens & Ufa's
(9783760734835). It is an informative book about ufology
and supposed extra-terrestrial life with a pop-up Ufo on its
center spread and an intriguing all-lenticular front cover.
The book ties in with the alien-chasing movie AkteX- Der
Film 2 that is simultaneously being shown in German
cinemas.

Ars Edition also has a
reprint - with a newly designed
front cover - of their great Das
Berlin-Paket (9783760718422)
by Michael Lewitscharoff, first
published in 2001. An English
edition of the book is available
as well: The Berlin Pack
(9783760720166). So, if you missed it before, be sure now
to get your copy of this amazingly well-produced city pack
that proves to be a sought-after classic in the range of
complex engineered packs.

The NordSud Verlag from
Switzerland surprises by
bringing a brand new pop-up
book by Marcus Pfister,
Monster-Party: Pop-up Buch
mit Lustigen Klapp-Effekten
(9783314016219) that will be
available in English from
North South Editions. It is
very remarkable that the
Swiss best-selling Pfister
brings a new picture book first
as a pop-up book. He earned
his fame in 1992 with the
publication of the picture book The Rainbow Fish (the first

book to incorporate shimmery foil in its design) that is
numbered among the world's best selling picture books of
our times.

But, again, as in recent years, the only continental
European market that offers an interesting range of original
movable and pop-up books is France. Not the glittery paper
extravaganzas we know from the American market, but,
surely, the most artistically illustrated and sophisticated
books, often levelling the high standards of the
contemporary European picture books.

The company that
produces a remarkable
line of original children's
movable books is the
French-Belgian publishing
house Casterman. They
offered, again, a mix of
movable titles ranging
from nostalgic retro
publications to highly
commercial middle-
market items to very nice artistic books illustrated by the
great names of the new French-Belgian school of picture
book illustration. Highly nostalgic are the two mini pop-up
books after the 1950s character of Martine from the books by
Delahaye and Mavlicr. Martine Danseuse (97822030 16835)
and Martine Princesse (978220301 6828). Rather traditional
are the illustrations in the two Venetian blind books by
Patrice Leo that commemorate the bicentennary of the Punch
figure: Guignol et le Loup (9782203015449, Punch and the
wolf) and Guignol et le Pirate (9782203015432, Punch and

the pirate). Similar are the
illustrations in the two new
titles by Cyril Hahn: a funny
new look at the wolf in the
pop-up book Le Pique-nique
du Petit Chaperon Rouge
(9782203017245, the picnic
of Little Red Riding Hood),
and a further story about his
little black boy character
Boubou, Sauve Qui Peut
Boubou! (9782203017672,
Remarkably different are the
Faire Pousser un Cerisier?
(9782203017306, how to raise a cherry-tree?) by Sylvia
Dupuis and with flaps, pull-tabs and a pop-up; in the funny
sound pop-up books by Emile Jalaud Et Moi Pas!
(9782203014305, not me!) about animals that prefer stripes
and others that prefer dots; and Unp'tit (9782203014299, a
little one) by Maelle et Pascal Lemaitre, a potty book. Most
poetic however - and most simply animated with just
gatefolds - is Les Moindres Petites Choses (978220300963 9,
the smallest little things) by Anne Herbauts, a clear
representative of today's highly artistic picture books.

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Casterman also published a fourth shadow theater book
designed by the packager Hotnail, illustrated once more by
Nathalie Dieterle, Issumboshi (97822030 12585). It comes
with a flashlight. Finally, a dummy was shown of an
elaborate pop-up book La Grande Muraille de Chine (the
great China wall) to come next year.

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1 real ghost in four lessons) by
1 Jacques Duquennoy, a witty
i movable handbook with flaps,
1 pull-tabs, and magnetic
I elements to teach the little boy
« Pacome how to haunt the castle
he happened to inherit.

As mentioned in part one of this contribution, the most
poetic and artistic Christmas book of the season was
offered by Bayard Jeunesse. Nativite Pop-up
(9782747027322) illustrated by Jean-Hugues Malineau
and paper engineered by Adrey Simon. This same
publisher brings a new delicate pop-up book by Jean-
Charles Rousseau, Promenons-nous Dans les Bois
(9782747025249, let's walk in the woods), also,
typographically, a very nicely executed pop-up book with
five well-known French children's songs, animated with
simple, origami-like pop-ups in the centerfold of the
spreads.

At the stand of Gallimard
Jeunesse we saw displayed
the new books engineered by
two French paper engineers
who both have
internationally-known names.
Olivier Charbonnel did the
rather complex paper artwork
for Pop-up Circus
(9782070619982) illustrated
in bright color planes by

Lionel Koechlin in which the fakir was especially

pleasing. Gerard Lo Monaco

surprised, once more, by his

three-dimensional artwork in a

choice of six tricks by the

naughty schoolboy Le Petit

Nicolas. Un Livre Pop-up

(9782070621378, little Nicolas:

a pop-up book). Written in the

early 1960s by the famous

comic-scenarist Rene Goscinny,

and illustrated in black and

white by the also famous

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ago. These are two very desirable items.

A must for comic lovers are also the two large pop-up
volumes of the Herge classics Tintin et le Secret de la
Licorne (9782974240980) and Tintin et le Tresor de
Rackham le Rouge (9782974241178) just published by
Moulinsart.

The best-selling couple
Pittau and Gervais have two
non-fiction pop-up books
with additional pull-tabs
from Gallimard Jeunesse: Le
Loup (the wolf) and Le
Koala (the koala). They
teach young children about
these animal's babies, foot
prints, feelings, food,
activities, and more. But
they surprise with their
large size (39.5 x 28.5 cm.)
and wordless lift-the-flap,
pop-up, mix-and-match,
hide-and-seek book
Axinamu (9782755701562, the title being an anagram of
animaux, animals). It is done alternately in black and white
and in color and is published by Editions du Panama.

And a final gem - in two
volumes - was seen at Editions
du Seuil. They offered Les
Fables de La Fontaine, Mises en
Scene par Dedieu: Livre I
(97820209833 72, the fables of La
Fontaine, staged by Dedieu. Part
I) and Livre 7/(9782020983389).
They are paper engineered by
Camille Baladi. Typographically
they are very well executed books
that show, in a window in the
center
of the
spreads

(six in each volume), a laser-cut,

layered perspective view of the

illustrations by Thierry Dedieu

which are done on black paper

against a one-color background.

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appear to be aimed at the adult gift

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The following titles have been identified from pre-
publication catalogs, Internet sources, book store hunting,
and advertising. All titles include pop-ups unless
otherwise noted and are listed for information only - not
necessarily as recommendations for purchase.

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Children's. £5.99.
9780230014633.
Also: Lizzie Ribbon 's Hat
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Barnacle Carnival: A
Pop-up Book. May.
Jumping Jack. $17.99.
9781605802831.

5/g a«<f Busy Space: Take
Off on an Incredible
Journey to Discover the
Secrets of the Universe.
Priddy Books. April. £8.99.
9781843325840.

Blood and Goo and Boogers
Too: A Heart-pounding
Pop-up Guide to the
Circulatory & Respiratory
Systems. Dial. $18.99.
9780803733251.

Citi Field: A Stadium Pop-up
Book. March. Universe. $25.00.
9780789399564.
Also: Fenway Park: A Ballpark
Pop-up Book. March.
978-0789399533.
Yankee Stadium: A Stadium
Pop-up Book. 9780789399571.

Double Delight Farm Pop-up.
Little Hare Books. $19.99
(Australian). 9781921272929.

Enchanted World of Winnie-
the-Pooh. Dutton. $19.99.
9780525479710.

Hey Diddle Diddle. Top That!
£5.99.9781846666674.

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If You love a Fairy Tale.
[transformational plates]
Barron's Educational Series.
$16.99.9780764161810.

The Mystery of the Messy
Clubhouse. $10.99. Disney
Press. 9781423110149.

Ocean. [Roly Poly].
£5.99. Child's Play.
9781846432453.
Also: Jungle.
9781846432439.
Snow. 9781846432446.
Space. 9781846432460.

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Oceans. 3-D Explorer.
Silver Dolphin. March.
S17.95.

9781592237685.
Also: Rain Forest.
9781592237593.
Bugs. 9781840118704.

Robert Crowther's Pop-up
House of Inventions:
Hundreds of Fabulous Facts
About Your Home. March.
Candlewick. SI 7.99.
978-0763642532.

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The Paper Architect: Fold-It-Yourself Buildings and
Structures. Potter Craft. S24.95. 978030745147.

Play With Rainbow Fish
Pop-up. May. North South
Books. S17.95.
9780735822290.

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Pop-up: Counting Animals.
$6.99. DK. 9780756640071.
Also: Pop-up Farm Animals.
9780756640088.

Pop-up Noisy Animals.
Dorling Kindersley. £4.99.
9781405332460.
Also: Pop-up Wild
Animals. 9781405332453.
Pop-up Farm Animals.
9781405328845.
Pop-up Animal Counting.
9781405332477.

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Pop-up Tour De France:
The World's Greatest Bike
Race. April. Paint Box
Press. S36.00.
9780966943375.

Revolving Nursery Rhymes.
Top That! £8.99.
9781846665721.

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Stuff and Nonsense: A
Touch-and-feel Book With a
Pop-up Surprise! Little
Simon. S14.99.
9781416959076.

The Very Hungry
Caterpillar Pop-up
Book. S29.99. Philomel.
9780399250392.

3-D World Atlas & Tour.
$16.99. Chronicle Books
9780811860611.

The Very Ticklish Tiger.
£8.99. Little Tiger Press
9781845065928.

Ship: Maritime History:
with Spectacular Pop-ups.
April. Universe. $40.00.
9780789318626.

Tractor Factory: A Pop-up
Book. $12.95. Mathew
Price. 9781935021001.

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